puzzled - Story 108041 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thudding started promptly at 8 AM. Sarah, still in her pajamas, peeked through the blinds. Mr. Henderson, usually a quiet man who spent his days tending his prize-winning roses, was now directing a group of burly men. They were tearing the siding off his house. She chewed on her lip, a frown creasing her brow. What on earth could be going on?

She made a cup of coffee, but the bitter liquid did little to soothe her unease. The hammering intensified, a relentless assault on the morning calm. She found herself drifting to the window every few minutes, watching the debris pile up in Mr. Henderson’s yard. Why had he decided to start such a massive project so suddenly? He hadn't mentioned anything.

Later that afternoon, she found herself staring at the blueprints she had been about to use. It was for a new shed. She just couldn't concentrate on anything, it seemed.

Emotion: puzzled

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.17 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.25

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion puzzled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 puzzled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the puzzled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the puzzled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`que`	0.453
`🤔`	0.421
`🤔`	0.402
`🧐`	0.328
`a`	0.294

Suppressed:

`ecstatic`	-0.265
`gladly`	-0.238
`swiftly`	-0.237
`alleviate`	-0.234
`wholeheartedly`	-0.232